Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Emergence, complexity, and social science
- 2 The third wave of social systems theory
- 3 The history of emergence
- 4 Emergence in psychology
- 5 Emergence in sociology
- 6 Durkheim's theory of social emergence
- 7 Emergence and elisionism
- 8 Simulating social emergence with artificial societies
- 9 Communication and improvisation
- 10 The Emergence Paradigm
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Emergence, complexity, and social science
- 2 The third wave of social systems theory
- 3 The history of emergence
- 4 Emergence in psychology
- 5 Emergence in sociology
- 6 Durkheim's theory of social emergence
- 7 Emergence and elisionism
- 8 Simulating social emergence with artificial societies
- 9 Communication and improvisation
- 10 The Emergence Paradigm
- References
- Index
- References
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- Social EmergenceSocieties As Complex Systems, pp. 231 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005